UN Security Council to meet on Egypt-Ethiopia dam dispute

The meeting will discuss Egypt's and Sudan's objections to the Ethiopian dam.
A worker goes down a construction ladder at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba in Ethiopia, on December 26, 2019. - The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a 145-metre-high, 1.8-kilometre-long concrete colossus is set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa. Across Ethiopia, poor farmers and rich businessmen alike eagerly await the more than 6,000 megawatts of electricity officials say it will ultimately provide. Yet as thousands of workers toil day and night to finish the projec
A worker goes down a construction ladder at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, near Guba in Ethiopia, on Dec. 26, 2019. - EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images
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The UN Security Council will meet Monday to discuss the Ethiopian Nile River dam dispute, but one Ethiopian diplomat is not happy about it.

Reacting to news of the meeting, Ethiopia’s ambassador to the United States, Fitsum Arega, said in a tweet today that peace with Egypt and Sudan on the issue requires “understanding the perpetual poverty in the region!”

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